NPR Show about Healing Voices

By STEVE KRASKE & LUKE X. MARTIN

Claiming patients who experience psychosis have a chemical imbalance is an easy and incomplete explanation to a complicated problem. Treating patients with medication doesn’t work for everyone, but other options do exist. Some are finding hope and better quality of life with a more holistic approach.

Guests:

• Oryx Cohen is COO of the National Empowerment Center, and is featured in and co-produced the documentary Healing Voices. He experiences periods of altered state.
• P.J. Moynihan is a producer and the founder of Digital Eyes Film.  His latest work is as director and producer of the documentary Healing Voices.

Listen here

Join us for ‘Mindfulness & Compassion for Extreme States’ with Rufus May and Elisabeth Svedholmer

Saturday, June 4th, 11am to 2pm,
@ C.G. JUNG FOUNDATION, ELEANOR BERTINE AUDITORIUM
28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016

Co-sponsored by Hearing Voices NYC and the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community

About this Workshop:

This workshop will look at different ways to use mindfulness and compassion based approaches with powerful states of mind. It will include: how mindfulness can help us as supporters, practical techniques that can be useful for strong mind states like mania and restlessness; Grounding and centering techniques; Compassionate communication styles Supporting people to develop a compassionate self.

Registration is required and space is limited. A limited number of number of free tickets will be provided to those with significant financial constraints. Please e-mail [email protected] if you are interested in a free ticket.

REGISTER HERE

Hearing Voices Network USA is happy to announce a new phone-in mutual support group for people who are currently facilitating Hearing Voices groups and for those interested in starting new Hearing Voices groups. This group is happening once-a-month via toll free conference call. Like other Hearing Voices groups, it’s a place to share our stories, challenges and victories, to gain new perspectives and connect with others who may have similar experiences.

When?

First Friday of each Month

3pm-4pm Eastern Time

Email Caroline White for more info: [email protected]

Rachel Waddingham is launching a series of online training courses on hearing voices, aimed specifically at people who live outside of the UK or find it difficult to fit full day courses into their busy lives. Each course consists of 4 x 1 week modules, videos and online access to a learning area. The first two courses will be:

• A Fresh Approach to Living with Voices
• A Fresh Approach to Taboo and Violent Voices

Introductory offer: £24 (full) and £15 (concessions – including unwaged and minimum waged).

For more information about the each course and to book a place, please click on the above links. For Frequently Asked Questions about Rachel’s online courses, please visit the relevant section of her website Behind the Label.

The first online courses will start on 4 January 2016. Early booking is advised.

Excellent article on several people’s experiences with voice-hearing was published by Australia News this week. You can read the full article here.

“one important element of the hearing voices approach is ‘voice dialogue’ — trying to change your relationship with the voices. “It’s like being in a bad relationship, You have two options, put up with it and distract yourself with an affair, or work on the relationship. If you realise you can do something, you’re not a victim of a broken brain, as many have been told. If meaning is given to you by someone else, you stop looking to make your own sense of things.

Australia’s ABC Radio has a new 2-part podcast on voices and visions! Here’s what they say:

“The phenomenon of hearing voices might not be as unusual as we think, and many people even live quite happily with the voices they hear. Sometimes the voices have helpful advice and at other times they offer a type of command. So where do these voices come from and did some of the world’s faiths begin with hearing voices? Is it a mental illness or other worldly communication, dictating a destiny?”

Debra Lampshire:  Voice Hearer, Educator, & Researcher is coming to NYC for two workshops

Debra Lampshire has transferred her 30 years of the lived experience of recovery, voice hearing and the shared experiences of the consumers she has worked with into a wealth of knowledge that is collaborative, interactive and empowering. She is a prominent leader and mentor to others within the service-user and clinical movement in New Zealand and a well know trainer, educator and advocate within national and international mental health services. She is the current Chairperson for ISPS New Zealand and held the position of Consumer Consultant to Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) for five years. She is currently a Project Manager for ADHB’s Psychological Interventions for Enduring Mental Illness Project. In this unique and innovative position, Debra works in a clinical setting, leading the development of psychological strategies for positive symptoms of psychosis, and is the first non-clinician to do so. Debra is also a professional teaching fellow with The University of Auckland’s Centre for Mental Health Research and Policy Development, where she holds both an academic and research role. Her work has been presented as keynotes and workshops/symposia at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally.

(1) ISPS-US is sponsoring a full day workshop at the A.R.E. Center in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday September 29th from 10 am to 4 pm. Cost $25 to $100, see registration for details.

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In this workshop, Ms. Lampshire will use her own experience, discuss her research, and engage with participants in experiential exercises with participants. The following topics will be addressed:

1. What does it mean for a voice hearer to be in recovery?
2. What is the role of empowerment in this recovery?
3. What do mental health professionals need to learn from voice-hearers?
4. What are the implications of the Hearing Voices Network paragdigm for the mental health system?

This workshop is appropriate for voice-hearers and their families/allies, students, peers, advocates and mental health professionals.

(2) FREE Hearing Voices NYC event, Friday evening September 25 from 6 pm to 8 pm.

TAKING BACK YOUR LIFE: Stand Up & Start Up!

In this talk Debra Lampshire, who spent decades institutionalized and who now gives lectures to mental health professionals regarding recovery, will discuss how she  overcomes the  fear of asserting herself, how to  feel confident and capable regarding  starting & leading  groups. For those who are feeling anxious, uncertain or who fear stepping up to the plate to start an HVN or other group, this meeting will be sure to inspire. This meeting is free to all.

Location: Jefferson Market Library

425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave) between 9-10th Streets

New York , NY 10011

Take A, B, C, D, E, F to West 4th Street or 1, 2, 3 to 14th St, F to 14th, L to 6th Ave, 4, 5 to 14 th St-Union Square or 6 to Astor Place

NO NEED TO REGISTER. JUST SHOW UP!!